Opinion | Trump's remarkable endorsement from this Muslim leader ought to alarm Harris

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68% : Yet in a close race, even peeling away a few percentages from these two communities could hand Trump a victory.
53% : Ghalib said Trump recently met with him for 20 minutes when he was holding a rally in Michigan.
50% : According to a recent poll of Muslim voters by Council of American-Islamic Relations, only 11% of Muslim voters nationwide said they planned to support Trump in November.
44% : But even if Trump did, given his anti-Palestinian record as president, we know that it would be consistent with the goals of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, not the Palestinian people.
34% : Romaan told me in an email that Ghalib's endorsement of Trump "does not represent the overwhelming majority of Muslim voters."
33% : "Trump is as pro-Netanyahu and anti-Palestinian as they come.
31% : "If Ghalib -- a self-described conservative Democrat -- had endorsed Trump in 2020, then he likely would have been subjected to a swift backlash.
28% : He wrote, "I'll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I'm ready to face the consequences."But even though 81% of voters in Hamtramck, a majority-Muslim city, cast their ballots for Biden in 2020, there appears to have been no notable outrage to Ghalib throwing his support to Trump.
26% : As a candidate and as a president, Trump had weaponized hate against Muslim and Arab Americans and targeted us with his "Muslim travel ban" that in many cases separated families.
26% : As a Muslim voter who is clear about the harm Trump will cause, this is worrisome -- but not unexpected.
23% : That said, unlike Ghalib, "Uncommitted Movement" leaders in Michigan announced that while they were not endorsing Harris, their top priority was defeating Trump.
22% : Not just for the good of the Arab and Muslim communities, but for the benefit of all Americans who want to see Trump defeated.
21% : Ghalib claims Trump, without providing details, promised to end the war.
21% : "In contrast, Trump has repeatedly used the word "Palestinian" as a slur to attack Democrats who express concern for the brutal suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.
19% : Ghalib's endorsement notwithstanding, the news isn't that Muslims are supporting Trump; it's that they're not supporting Harris.
10% : And during the Gaza war, Trump vocally criticized Harris's calls for a ceasefire--with his primary concern not being the slaughter of Palestinians but that Israel was "absolutely losing the PR war.

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